The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 45

The sisters pretended not to know, but the old woman easily guessed what had happened, and, as she was in reality a wicked witch, determined to punish the fugitives.

Who acts: sisters, old woman, sun · What happens: pretend, not know, guess, happen, be, determine · To what, where: wicked witch, fugitives · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sisters, old woman, sun), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sisters	det
2	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 pretended	nsubj
3	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 know	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 know	mark
6	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 pretended	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 guessed	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 guessed	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 woman	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 woman	amod
11	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 guessed	nsubj
12	easily	easily	ADV	_	13 guessed	advmod
13	guessed	guess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 pretended	conj
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 happened	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 happened	aux
16	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 guessed	ccomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 reality	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 reality	cc
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 and	punct
20	as	as	ADP	_	24 reality	case
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 reality	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 reality	cop
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 reality	case
24	reality	reality	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pretended	obl
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 witch	det
26	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 witch	amod
27	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 reality	appos
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 determined	punct
29	determined	determine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 witch	acl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 punish	mark
31	punish	punish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 determined	xcomp
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 fugitives	det
33	fugitives	fugitive	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 punish	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 pretended	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pretend	past	the sisters			tree rules
2	not know	to-infinitive	the sisters not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	guess	past	the old woman		easily property	vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	happen	past · perfect				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	past	sun		as reality	tree rules
6	determine	participle		a wicked witch not said here		vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	punish	to-infinitive		the fugitives		vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fugitive=Patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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